PgDog (YC P25) Is Hiring
🚀 PgDog (YC P25) is Expanding the Team!
PgDog is seeking a Founding Software Engineer to help build a high-performance scaling engine for PostgreSQL.
📋 Job Overview
| Detail | Specification |
|---|---|
| Role | Founding Software Engineer (Full Stack) |
| Compensation | 225,000 / year |
| Equity | |
| Location | SF, CA, OR, or Remote (US/CA) |
| Experience | years |
| Visa | US Citizen or Visa holder only |
| Tech Stack | PostgreSQL, Rust |
🛠️ The Mission
Postgres is arguably the most popular database in existence, but scaling it in a production environment is notoriously difficult. PgDog is solving this by building advanced scaling tools—specifically load balancing and sharding—to ensure Postgres is the only database a company ever needs.
The Technical Challenge
We are building a distributed database from the ground up using first principles. Our goal is to make Postgres scale with the ease of Cassandra or ElasticSearch.
Key Objectives:
- Seamless Sharding: Ensure queries "just work" with sharded Postgres so users don't have to rewrite their SQL.
- Dynamic Redistribution: Implement in-place data redistribution to make sharding a "push-button" operation.
- Production First: We ship features directly to customers the moment they are ready.
👤 Who You Are
We are looking for a meticulous, detail-oriented engineer who balances calculated risk with rigorous quality.
- Testing Philosophy: You write tests because you actually want the system to work,
not just to satisfy a manager's checklist. - Production Mindset: You aren't afraid to deploy code to real data; you believe that's the only true way to validate a solution.
- Cognitive Independence: You are comfortable using AI, but you never let it do the thinking for you.
- Curiosity: You are happy to spend your day diving into the Postgres SQL reference and Wikipedia to solve hard problems.
📅 Your Journey at PgDog
The First 30 Days
- Get fully acquainted with the entire codebase.
- Start contributing to active development.
- Engage directly with customers to gather feedback.
- Help the team identify and acquire new users.
Day-to-Day Life
Your time will be split roughly as follows:
You'll be leveraging Rust for its type-safety and "fearless concurrency," utilizing a robust open-source ecosystem or building your own libraries to contribute back to the community.
🎙️ From the Founder: Lev Kokotov
"I've been working with Rust for nearly a decade—I even built my own web framework just for the challenge. PgDog started as a side project while I was between jobs; a year later, it's mission-critical infrastructure for some very serious users. We've grown in just a few months by pushing Postgres to do things it wasn't originally designed for. The reality is that if you can make a user's existing database just work, they'll love you—
nobody actually wants to migrate to Dynamo."
🎁 Perks & Culture
- Health & Wellness: Fully covered dental and health insurance.
- Flexibility: Unlimited PTO.
- SF Local Perks: If you're in the Bay Area, expect plenty of coffee, dinners, hikes, and bike rides.
- The Mascot: You'll get to help walk my 90-pound dog (which is exactly where the name PgDog comes from!).